Ghosts, witches, graves, black cats, Halloween, Friday the 13th ...

SUPERSTITIONS

• Carry a lump of bread in your pocket when walking in the dark. It will serve as an offering to ghosts.
• If you see a ghost, walk around it nine times, and it will disappear.
• If you can't walk around the spook nine times, crow like a rooster. The theory is that ghosts don't wear watches and they'll flee if they think daylight is coming.
• When passing a graveyard or a house where someone has died, turn your pockets inside out to make sure you you don't bring home ghost in your pocket.
• Never slam a door. You might hurt a ghost, who'll haunt you for the rest of your life.

• If a witch somehow infects you with a spell, drink water from a running creek, using a cup made of cypress wood, for nine days straight.
• Bury a knife under your doorstep to protect your home from witches, who supposedly cannot pass over cold iron.
• Witches also hate brass. To prevent a witch from making your milk cow go dry, make a bell out of brass and hang it around the cowıs neck.
• Put a witch's nail or hair clippings in a small glass bottle. Burying the bottle will break a witch's spell. Hanging the bottle in the fireplace will keep witches from flying into the room. And placing the bottle in a fire will kill the witch.

• Don't point at a grave or your finger will rot off.
• Don't count the number of cars in a funeral procession or youıll have bad luck.
• Always pick a rainy day for a funeral so the deceased will go directly to heaven.

• Deadly diseases can be given to a child by a black cat sucking its breath.
• If a baby plays with a black cat, it will have worms. Every cat hair it swallows will become a worm.
• Kill a black cat on Halloween and you'll have seven years of bad luck.
• If a black cat meows on your porch or near a window, a death will soon occur in the family.

• If you leave your calendar turned to Friday the 13th, a witch will claim you on the 14th.
• Donıt consult the stars on Friday the 13th.
• Never start a new business on Friday the 13th.
• On Friday the 13th, to sleep without bad luck, fold the pantyhose or stockings of a woman across the foot of the bed with a straight pen inside one of the folds.